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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Queen Mother
| Issuer | Cook Islands |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS RDM 1995 |
| Reverse description | Conjoined busts of Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) and King George VI facing slightly left, depicted as a young couple in formal attire, set against a plain field within a beaded inner border. The curved legend QUEEN ELIZABETH · THE QUEEN MOTHER arcs around the upper portion of the design, while ONE CROWN appears along the lower arc within the border. The denomination 20 DOLLARS and the year 1936 are referenced in the broader design context commemorating the accession period. |
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Issued the year of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 95th birthday, this Cook Islands commemorative belongs to a surge of Pacific island silver issues from the 1990s produced primarily for the collector market rather than any circulating purpose. Cook Islands, like several Commonwealth territories during this period, licensed its coinage authority extensively to foreign minting firms, with many such pieces struck in the UK or continental Europe and never physically present in Rarotonga.
The Queen Mother would live another seven years, dying in March 2002 at 101.